0 to manage to continue until the end of a competition --
With a short course and high stroke no set of men are strong enough to use the old oar and go the distance without weakening.
Besides, it has a mighty chastening and stimulating effect on the star to know that if she balks there's a sweet young thing in reserve who's able and eager to go the distance.
At another time, on a wager of five hundred dollars that he could ride him over the prairie one hundred miles in ten hours, he went the distance in nine hours and forty-five minutes.
